Calamonastes katangae Neave

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 54-55

Calamonastes katangae Neave

Calamonastes katangae Neave, 1909: 130 (Katanga).

Now Calamonastes undosus katangae Neave, 1909 . See Urban et al., 1997: 305.

Syntype: AMNH 598423, adult female, collected on the upper Lualaba River, western Katanga, Congo (Kinshasa), on 31 May 1907, by S.A. Neave (no. 223). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Neave did not designate a type or say how many specimens were collected. In a later paper, Neave (1910a: 149) listed five specimens, all collected on his second (1907) trip to the Congo, giving his field numbers for them but still not indicating a type, and adding ( Neave, 1910a: 81): ‘‘The majority of the specimens, including the types, remain in the British Museum’’. However, as no types had been designated, all specimens in the original type series were syntypes. The AMNH specimen is marked ‘‘ Calamonastes katangae cotype’’, initialed by Neave; it had not previously been included in the AMNH type collection.

The month of collecting on Neave’s original label appears to be a poorly written ‘‘ May’ ’. This was read as ‘‘ März’ ’ by Hartert and so entered on the Rothschild Collection label. Neave (1910a: 80, 82, and 1910b: map opp. p. 224) gave the itinerary of his 1907 trip and a map that showed his routes. On 31 March his itinerary gave his location as the Upper Dikulwe River Valley , 3500–4000 ft ; on 31 May he was in the Upper Lualaba Valley , high plateau, 4000 ft, at ca. 11.00S, 25.40E .

Sclater (1930: 517) restricted the type locality to the Lufupa River. Warren and Harrison (1971: 279–280) listed a female specimen from the Lufupa River as a syntype, noting that it was labeled ‘‘type’’ and that there was an additional syntype in the collection. The AMNH specimen is a syntype, as is a specimen in RMCA ( Louette et al., 2002: 40).